Long-time readers will probably be aware of my love for the Dragon Age series. I’ve covered both Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II on these very pages over the last couple of years.
I hailed the first as an excellent and challenging technical combat RPG, praising its depth and scale, while highlighting its unforgiving nature and its potential to put off the more casual gamer. Read more …
Every day I wake up and remember that I can’t buy The Legend of Dragoon – one of the finest RPGs on the original PlayStation – from the PlayStation Store, I feel sad. Sad for the company that steadfastly refuses to take my money. Because I would buy it, no questions asked, without the slightest hesitation. That game was awesome and, even though I own it in its original format, I would still like the security that comes from owning it in a digital format.
I know that in these days of services being stopped and consoles lacking backwards compatibility, digital is far from a certainty. But at least downloads aren’t subject to bit rot or the necessity of physical storage space. Room in my room is at a premium.
So my emotions were doing backflips late last week when I discovered that masterpieces of JRPG Suikoden and Suikoden II were coming to Vita… but only in the US. Konami why. Konami please. Luckily, they seem to have listened to my plaintive wails (or rather, the collective wails of EU masses). Read more …
It’s about time I wrote something, isn’t it? Get something out before the furore of Dragon Age and Far Cry reviews when the world at large gets their hands on them. Because while November is the busiest month for gaming we’ve seen for a while, there’s more than just the big name games coming out to play.
I was given the opportunity to review Trove as it was entering its open beta. I will readily admit that my first impressions of the game were fairly neutral. Among them were “Well this is basically Minecraft, isn’t it?” and “Why haven’t I heard anything about this game before?”. Let’s look at those questions, in what I won’t be calling a review: since the game isn’t actually finished, that wouldn’t be fair. Take everything you read with a pinch of salt, but read on if you’re keen to find out why this game gets a glowing recommendation. Read more …
Recently, I had the chance to pose a few questions to Chris Keenan, Project Lead at InXile Entertainment for the recent game Wasteland 2 (which I gave a massive thumbs up to in my recent review)
Here’s what he had to say: Read more …
It’s not often that I’ve had cause to review a Kickstarted game here on Zero1gaming, but with the crowd-funding movement becoming so prominent over recent years, there’s more than a few titles emerging from the site, so it’s about time I got on board.
Truth be told though, I’d have been all over today’s subject; Wasteland 2; like a tramp on chips whether it was kickstarted, big budget, indie-developed or even, gulp, taken over by EA!
In a sign of its increasing popularity worldwide, Square-Enix have opted to give fans of its hit MMO Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn around the globe the opportunity to watch upcoming conventions on live streams. The Fan Festival 2014 is being hosted in Las Vegas (October 17th, 18th and 19th), Tokyo (October 20th and 21st) and London (October 24th and 25th) this year, with each gathering being streamed over the internet in a manner similar to Blizzard’s past offerings with BlizzCon. Read more …